The Cool Down

Contractor shares surprising PSA for people considering off-grid living: 'A real world understanding'

A contractor recently shared their advice with the r/OffGrid Reddit community about inspecting an off-grid home.
The Cool Down

Homeowner shares photos of lakeside off-grid compound: 'A beautiful place'

One Redditor shared the idyllic setup they've created for themselves to live off-grid — without taxes and bills.
IEEE

Two-Dimensional Off-Grid Beamforming Acoustic Source Identification for Planar Microphone Arrays via Unfolding Delay-and-Sum

Abstract: The classical sparsity-based source identification method encounters the basis mismatch problem due to discretizing the focus region and assuming that acoustic sources are on-grid. This ...

We don’t need 100 different septic system rules

And it’s through that lens that state policy makers ought to be considering whether to restrict municipal regulation of ...
IEEE

Time-Domain Off-Grid Sparse Bayesian Learning for High-Resolution Time-Delay Estimation

Abstract: When estimating the acoustic channel impulse response (CIR) at low frequencies, matched filter (MF)-based methods suffer from limited resolution due to the narrow source bandwidth. To ...
Moonshine Ink

Beneath the Surface: Sewer and Septic

A decades-old law bans septic systems in the Tahoe Basin, but many Truckee neighborhoods still rely on them — and switching ...